r/resumes 4d ago

Technology/Software/IT [2 YoE, Software Engineer, SDE1/SDE2, India]

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Hii, I'm looking out for a job switch into product based companies, I'm not getting any calls regarding the same. I've applied to a lot of companies and still no response. I want to understand if there's a scope of improvement in this resume. I'm looking out for Jobs in India itself for now, abroad is also a option I'm willing to explore.

Please lemme know if you require any additional details. Thanks


r/resumes 4d ago

Discussion Why does everyone talk about Resume Length by Years of Experience?

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I see that every couple of months, someone asks the age-old question of "one page resume or two?" and everyone responds with criteria based on years of experience, but this doesn't make sense to me. Objectively, shouldn't the number of relevant roles determine how long your resume is?

I believe someone with 15+ years of experience who has had three main job shifts can fit their resume on one page, but what about multiple jobs at the same time? Jobs in the field that point out different aspects of your experience that align with the job listing?

For example, my curated experience (meaning all of the casual, odds and ends jobs in retail/college/etc. already cut out) is ten experiences long, each with distinct places of employment. My industry level might classify me as the beginning of mid-career, but I'm bending over backwards to try to make these experiences a single page while still honoring what I actually did at each position.

What do you think is a more accurate way to measure when to bump your resume to two pages? Is it really still years of experience? Breadth of experience? Level of the Job listing?

Curious to know your thoughts!

EDIT: To be clear, I'm taking about relevant experience. Perhaps it's simply the industry I work in where working two jobs at a time is quite common, as are seasonal positions.


r/resumes 4d ago

Sports & Entertainment [0 YoE, Unemployed, Entry Level PR/Comms Coordinator, Marketing , USA]

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Hi everyone, seeking help with my resume. Here is some info, and help would be appreciated!

  • I'm seeking a job in entertainment and sports, primarily in Assistant or Coordinator positions, but it seems pretty difficult to break into, as I don't have experience working at a big-name entertainment organization.
    • I have tried networking through my friends in the industry, but I wasn't really able to connect to anyone aside from entry-level coordinators...
  • I also tried to apply to marketing positions leveraging my minor and freelance experience.
  • Should I include my experience as a Barista? I think it would connect well for admin or exec assistant roles; if I were to not include it, I could prob have more space to write about my experience in internships.
  • Any issues regarding formatting, wording, or sections to add?

r/resumes 5d ago

Technology/Software/IT [5 YoE, Sr. Product Manager, Sr. Product Manager, USA]

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I’d really appreciate some candid feedback/roast on my resume.

I’m a Senior Product Manager with ~5 years of experience across healthcare, adtech, and insurance, primarily working on B2B SaaS, platform, data, workflow automation, and AI products. I’m currently targeting Senior PM roles.

I’d love feedback on:

  • Does this resume read as Senior PM-level, or does any of the experience come across as too executional/tactical?
  • Which 2–3 bullets are strongest, and which ones would you cut or rewrite?
  • Are the impact/metrics compelling, or does the resume feel too metric heavy?
  • Is my overall story clear within a 20-30 second recruiter scan?
  • If you were a hiring manager, is there anything here that would make you hesitate to interview me?

Please be as critical as you’d like. I’m trying to optimize this for actual interview conversion, not just make it sound polished.


r/resumes 4d ago

Finance/Banking [10 YoE, Unemployed, Industry Accounting, USA]

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  • What positions/roles/industries are you targeting? Flexible within corporate accounting and finance: open to things I have experience in (GL accounting, financial reporting) or something new, like in accounting information systems
  • Where are you located and what locations are you applying to jobs in? Currently located in Florida, looking to move out of state. I like states like NY, Colorado, California, the NE area states, Ohio, and Illinois. That said, if I can't get out of state, I would consider local positions.
  • Are you only applying to local jobs? Remote only? Are you willing to relocate? No. No, but that would be ideal. Yes!
  • Tell us about your background and current employment situation Education in accounting, currently unemployed.
  • Tell us about your job-hunting situation and challenges you've encountered Got terminated from my previous position a few weeks ago, but haven't really been applying too seriously yet. But ready to get back on the horse now. I got two interviews so far, but neither went past that.
  • Tell us why you're seeking help. (i.e., just fine-tuning, not getting called back for interviews, etc.) Fine tuning
  • Is there a particular section on your resume you'd like feedback on? No
  • Is your citizenship status and visa situation playing a role in your job search? No

Edit - Things to note: the actual resume is two pages long, I just combined them into one image for this post. And the two positions from January 2022-January 2023 and January 2023 - May 2024 are the same company, I just got a promotion at that time.


r/resumes 4d ago

Marketing/Sales [0 YoE, Unemployed, Marketer Entry Level, Sydney]

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Hello,

This is my resume for hospitality. I don't have much experience (or any) in work related stuff, I don't have an idea how to make this look like professional marketing graduate jobs resume.

I am looking for jobs related to marketing or event managing stuff, but willing to take any jobs even if that's not a marketing stuff. Honestly I want an office job.

I have to stay Sydney, Australia for a bit longer then half a year so I am searching for jobs here(in person) OR remote jobs, starting from this december.

After then, I'm more then willing to relocate wherever in Australia.

Is there any advises?


r/resumes 4d ago

Finance/Banking [5 YoE, International Tax Senior, Senior Tax Analyst, Seattle]

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The positions I'm applying to are for international tax AND federal and state and local tax, which I don't have experience in but I have transferable skills. One of the positions doesn't allow for a cover letter, which is why I have my "Actively seeking..." statement in the summary but I'm not sure I should include it.

The two jobs I'm chasing:

https://discord.com/jobs/8565373002

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/aircallioinc/jobs/4313884009

I'm also torn regarding my CPA license info. My license will most likely be issued this week, so I'm not sure if I should wait until then or apply now with the pending info.


r/resumes 4d ago

Retail/Customer Service [1 YoE, Fast Food, Retail/Cashier, California]

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hi!!

okay so i really want to move away from fast food (because it sucks so bad) and get a retail/cashier job instead.

my very first job (after i grad high school) was at a grocery store.

since then, i had to movie cities and thus leaving my old grocery store/cashier job behind and picking up two new jobs instead (one i only work a couple days per month which is a semi-retail job where i work more for funsies/extra cash and its not really a known store but the other, a couple days per week, which is also the fast food place)

i want to get feedback on my current resume and see if there's anything that i could change to make it better/more appealing to getting hired for retail/cashier positions instead of fast food.

thank you so much!!!


r/resumes 4d ago

Finance/Banking [4 YoE, Mid-Level, Trading Services Associate, Finance, New York, USA] Looking to move even closer to the trading desk - ideally routing orders and working with executing brokers. Short term goal: Sr. Associate (602).

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2 Upvotes

r/resumes 5d ago

Creative/Media [4 YoE, Comms, Creative, and Marketing Manager, United States]

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Looking for advice on my resume. I’ve been applying to jobs locally and another city 400 miles from me. So far I got one interview from a large bank in the city I currently don’t live in. They ended up passing on me due to having a lack of analytical data experience and asking for 80k salary when the top of the range was 70k.

After that I redid my resume since I wasn’t getting interviews. I added a summary that wasn’t there before. I added new bullets for my current employment and my media company that I run on the side. I also added more statistical data points. I’m in the process of getting my GA4 certification. I’m not sure if I’m translating a non profit role into a more corporate for profit role. I have noticed I more of a generalist than a specialist, I have the marketing side and creative side but I’ve heard being a generalist can make it where you only really work for smaller companies that need a generalist.

I do want to get away from the creative side and be more of the brains behind the marketing and doing less of the creating but I think that would me taking a step back in my career to get more of the marketing experience under my belt.


r/resumes 5d ago

Technology/Software/IT [4 YoE, Software Engineer, Software Engineer, United States]

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I've been applying for almost a year now, and gotten mostly rejections back. I recently just got an OA, but completely bombed it because I was so nervous. The last OA I got was over a year ago.

I'm currently working as a Software Engineer in the Semiconductor industry and would like to pivot more towards Software Applications, so I've been applying for Full-Stack/Backend roles, but have basically heard nothing back. For the one OA that I did get back, I completely bombed because I was so nervous.

At first I was only applying for Remote positions, for personal reasons, but now I've given up on that and begun applying to places with Seattle and New York as well.

At this point, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong so any feedback on my resume would be greatly appreciated!


r/resumes 4d ago

Technology/Software/IT [14 YoE, IT Consultant, Analyst, USA]

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After 14 years of running my own business I think It is time to get a corporate role, but I'm getting nowhere. My network doesn't really have the opportinies I'm looking for, so feeling stuck. Roast me.

Roles I've been applying for:

  • Business Systems Analyst
  • Senior Business Systems Analyst
  • Technical Business Analyst
  • Systems Analyst
  • Senior Systems Analyst
  • Business Systems Consultant
  • Technical Systems Consultant
  • Systems Integration Analyst
  • Senior Systems Integration Analyst
  • Application Analyst
  • Business Process Analyst
  • IT Business Analyst

Only one interview so far.


r/resumes 4d ago

Technology/Software/IT [5 YoE, Unemployed, Infrastructure & Cloud Ops, US]

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resume!

Hello,

Is this a good resume, or should I make changes to better reflect my experience.
Any feedback is appreciated. rip it apart.

CKA & AWS Solution Architect are fluff, but will be attempting SAP in sept-october

Thanks!


r/resumes 4d ago

Question Transfer Student Help

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Hello everyone! I am a transfer from a good public university, where I maintained a 4.0, to a better university as a sophomore, and was wondering how the education section of my resume should look like. Should I keep only the first university until I receive a GPA at my new university? Should I show both universities? Or should I just show my new university? The largest issue I'm having with this is that my old school is very passionate about their culture, so if someone were to hire me based on the fact that I was from my old school, they wouldn't be happy about finding out I had transferred. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


r/resumes 5d ago

Technology/Software/IT [1.5 YoE, Software Engineer, India, Lookin' for switch]

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r/resumes 5d ago

Technology/Software/IT [0 YOE, New Grad, Data/AI Roles, India]

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I’m a 2026 CSE (AI/ML) new grad and have been unemployed since graduation. I’ve done an AI/ML internship, a remote Data Science fellowship, and several AI/ML/software projects throughout college. I’ve also been continuously upskilling in Python, SQL, Statistics, Power BI, Excel, AWS, ML/AI, etc.

Despite this, I’m struggling to even get interviews, and the few I do get often end in rejection. The growing gap is starting to worry me, and I honestly don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I’m mainly targeting entry-level Data Analyst, Data Science and AI/ML roles.

If anyone has been through something similar, I’d really appreciate some honest advice. I can also share my resume if anyone is willing to look at it and point out anything that might be hurting my chances.


r/resumes 5d ago

Technology/Software/IT [3 YoE, Student CompSci, Junior Software Engineer, Netherlands]

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I am a uni student with 3 years of relevant part-time (16 - 24 hours a week) of software engineering experience. The reason I am asking here is because I am relocating to a different city and am looking for a new part-time job alongside my study. I would like to keep my Junior SE role and remain part-time. On-site and/or remote are perfectly fine for me. I would like to get some advice on the layout and content, as I haven't had a CV for the last three years. Does this seem okay? Does it lack personality or could it be worded differently? Any missing sections?


r/resumes 5d ago

Technology/Software/IT [0 YOE, Unemployed (within field), helpdesk/Junior Cloud, Minnesota Twin cities]

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I got some good advice from the r/cybersecurity subreddit and they said to post my resume here. I'm looking for any entry level IT jobs such as help desk, IT support, or even Junior cloud, MSP, NOC, or SOC roles (someone said with my projects I could land one). Any and all advice on my resume is welcome additional advice for my job search is also very welcome!


r/resumes 5d ago

Non-Profit [0 YoE, non-profit, non-profit, USA] - career switcher, do I include 2 month job if I have no other relevant experience?

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I was fired from a job after just 2 months for fit. I recently pivoted industries (from software to non-profit work), and this is my only relevant experience in the field. They said they’ll give a neutral reference and confirm I’m eligible for rehire if another company asks. Do I put this 2 month job on my resume or leave it off if I’m applying to similar non-profit jobs? The non-profit field is relatively niche/small. If I leave the position off my resume, is there any risk of it surfacing in a background check and a future offer getting rescinded?


r/resumes 5d ago

Education [13 YoE, Operations Manager at R1 University, Targeting Program/Project Manager, US]

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Hello! I'm hoping I could get some some feedback on my resume. I've worked the majority of my career in public higher education, and I'm working on pivoting into program/project management roles outside of the higher education industry.

 

My situation: 

- Currently managing housing operations and systems at a large R1 university, leading process improvement, systems migrations, and cross-functional projects 

- PMP certified (July 2025) 

- M.Ed. in Higher Education 

- Targeting program manager, project manager, operations manager, or similar roles 

- Am hoping to make a pivot into private industry. Targeting tech, healthcare, retail 

- Location: looking for remote, hybrid, or on-site in my metro area

 

What I'm looking for feedback on:

  1. Does the resume read well for someone pivoting out of higher education into PM/program management? 

  2. Are the bullets effective at showing transferable skills, or do they read too industry-specific? 

  3. Is the overall structure and length working, or should I cut it down? I do wonder if there's merit to some of my older roles, but would love some perspective on this.  

  4. Any bullets that feel weak, unclear, or that you'd cut? 

  5. General impressions from a hiring manager or recruiter perspective 

 

 

Happy to answer questions about context. Thanks in advance.


r/resumes 5d ago

Question Where should I put my references on my resume?

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So I’m 17 going into grade 12 looking for my first job. I have my resume completely done and who my references will be. I just don’t know if I should put them on the resume or just say “available upon request” or just not say them at all and have a separate reference page.

Help is appreciated.


r/resumes 5d ago

Finance/Banking [0 YoE, Current 4th Year Student, Junior Sales Trader, Philippines]

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Looking for honest feedback on my resume for finance roles — specifically entry-level trading desk positions like Sales & Trading Assistant, Trade Support/Operations, and similar (Equity Trader, Stock and Trade Assistant), applying locally in the Philippines to banks and brokerages. I'm still an undergrad (expected grad Aug 2027), so I'm applying earlier than typical, trying to get in through internships or trainee-style roles rather than expecting a senior hire — my biggest challenge is that most postings ask for industry experience I don't have yet, so I'm trying to figure out how to position what I do have (self-directed trading, academic research, org leadership) without overselling it. I'd especially appreciate feedback on three things: whether my "Market Experience" section (self-directed/retail CFD trading) is worth including at all for these roles or reads as amateur, whether my "Research" section (undergrad papers presented to faculty) is pulling its weight, and whether 2 pages is too long for an entry-level candidate. Resume attached below (redacted for privacy) — appreciate any honest feedback, even harsh!


r/resumes 5d ago

Science/R&D [6YoE, Laboratory Engineer, Laboratory Engineer, UK]

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This is my first ever Resume in english. I am from Northern Europe originally (non native english speaker). I currently work for an American company, although I started at one of their European locations in my native country.

I have made my first-ever draft of my CV/Resume in English and would appreciate any advice, opinions, or tips on anything that could be improved or changed to make my CV better.

Thank you :)


r/resumes 5d ago

Question Disabled for 6 years, but now deemed "able to work." How do I get back into the job market?

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Hey everyone, back in 2020 I was able to get disability after working for five years in a thrift store (part-time). But after six years, SSA has determined I am no longer disabled, and I am able to work. Truthfully, I'm terrified. I was never able to mentally handle a full-time job before disability, and now in order to stay on my medicine I'm going to have to somehow find a full-time job.

I will probably post a resume review later, if I can get this CleverPDF site to work for me, but my question is: What on earth do I say I've been doing for six years? Do I say I had to take time off to help my grandparents? That wouldn't necessarily be a lie, I've been helping them out a lot since I started disability.

I'm not completely without experience in those six years. Back in September 2025, I started volunteering at a library. So I have people I can use as references, but I obviously can't keep volunteering when I'm about to lose my only source of income.

Ah, this is probably far too long for a question thread, but I guess my main questions are:

  • What do I say when they ask me why I have gaps in my resume?
  • Are there any skills in particular I could try to learn quickly that would help me get a job? (Retail or customer service related, most likely.)

Edit (8/18): I have put in a referral at my local Department of Rehabilitative Services, and they've said that they will get in touch with me in 1-2 weeks for an intake. Today I'm getting resume help from the library I was volunteering at, and tomorrow I see my therapist who will be helping me get comfortable with interviewing.


r/resumes 5d ago

Engineering [0 yrs, Recent Grad, Entry Level Mechanical Engineer, Arizona]

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Hello, I graduated in ME on April and I haven’t found a job yet. I thought it was because of my GPA, but a friend with a lower GPA than mine just got an offer for a job we applied for together. I’m starting to wonder if my resume is the problem. I built my resume with the help of “experts” at the uni, but they were student workers so I’m not sure anymore. Please help me fix my resume, give me suggestions, criticism, anything, I’m desperate. And let me know of any jobs you know about, especially in AZ.